Kardashians Producers Want to Make Bad Girls Club Dallas

Bad girls of Dallas: There’s a TV show out there for you and now is your time! This show isn’t what you think it is. This show is called Bad Girls Club and…what? Why are you rolling your eyes? OK, so yeah, this TV show is basically seven girls living…

Haul Out the Ornaments

We know, we know. On top of picking out a Christmas tree, setting it up, and watering it, you also have to decorate it. It’s exhausting. Ornaments are typically just those glass or plastic things your parents store in a cardboard box in the attic and make you get out…

Shop Local, Shop Often

Shopping local is important, folks. We shouldn’t have to tell you that. But Deep Ellum Outdoor Market is making it easy for you with its appropriately named Fall Deep Ellum Market. Local musicians, including Richmond Punch, Justin Pickard and The Thunderbird Winos, and Sydney Wright, will be there to perform…

Deep: Expressions of the Feminine Aura

Opening Thursday, Kettle Art will present “Deep: Expressions of the Feminine Aura,” an exhibit featuring five female artists portrayed their commentaries on their gender through color and imagery. Deep is made up of Roxanne Mather, who paints scenic art for theater and cats, Corey Godfrey, an alumna of University of…

Love Story

Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. At least we hope. Shakespeare Dallas and AT&T Performing Arts Center are presenting all of William Shakespeare’s works and the 19th on the list is The Two Gentleman of Verona. If you skipped this story in high school, then here’s…

Ditch the Canned Soup

You know that broccoli and cheese soup recipe your grandmother passed down to you that you make every chance you get? Yeah, Christopher Kimball thinks you’re cooking it all wrong and his mission in life is to teach you the right way. Everyone’s favorite PBS cooking show, America’s Test Kitchen,…

Dallas’ Johnny Stimson Has a Road Map for Stardom

When Dallas-based singer and songwriter Johnny Stimson graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in finance, he had his dreams for a music career all planned out. He made, as he refers to it now, a “two-year, thought-out decision to move to New York,” where he spent a few months…

Casting Director Wants to Create the Laguna Beach of Highland Park

Vinnie Potestivo of Vinnie Potestivo Entertainment is looking to make a Laguna Beach-type show — but in our very own Highland Park. If you don’t remember MTV’s Laguna Beach because you had better things to do than watch spoiled California kids get drunk, then you missed out on MTV’s prime…

The Serial Silliness of Brad Paisley

When Brad Paisley isn’t writing and performing sweet, tender songs that make women melt into a big pile of love — or even haunting songs about death — he’s writing some hilarious, off-the-wall, kind of stupid songs about the things happening to or around him. That’s the charm of Paisley,…

Aretha Franklin, Islands, Pinback

Islands With TEEN, 7 p.m. Thursday, September 4, at Dada, 2720 Elm St., dadadallas.com, $12-$14 For better or worse, this is the type of future Zappa saw for pop, a contraption as regressive as it is disarming, music as sour candy. Rising from the ashes of cult act the Unicorns,…

The Best Concerts in Dallas This Weekend, 8/29 – 9/1

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend! We apologize for the exclamation mark, but our excitement is something we’re not capable of hiding at this point. Mondays suck, so getting to skip them is kind of great. (Besides, we’ve already chronicled our love for Sunday fun days.) This weekend is…

OneRepublic at Gexa Energy Pavilion, 8/26/14

OneRepublic With Christina Perri and Jamie Scott Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas Tuesday, August 26, 2014 It was a typical midsummer show at Gexa Energy Pavilion last night as pop stars OneRepublic hit town. Even late into the night, it was hot — temperatures hung in the 90s — and the…

Panic! at the Disco at South Side Ballroom, 8/22/14

Panic! at the Disco South Side Ballroom, Dallas Friday, August 22, 2014 From an outsider’s perspective, it would seem Panic! at the Disco sings to the age of teen angst — when you’re too young to go anywhere without your parents, when school and life is miserable, and when black…